Organizations Filed Purposes:
Akron Fossils & Science Center exists to provide visitors of all ages with balanced, affordable, and hands-on educational opportunities to explore the science of the world past, present, and future. One segment of our center explores creation science education.
We offer science classes primarily for homeschool groups in biology, physics, astronomy, chemistry, anatomy, physiology, and botany. These classes meet once a week for 28 weeks for students in K-12th grade. Particiants can pick individual classes or enroll in multiple classes for an all day bundle. We also offer custom group classes and family classes as well. 75 students were enrolled in our science classes in 2019.
Our science center provides guests with hands-on guided tours and science activities. We have exhibits that display fossils, and visitors can hold real fossils, as well as make and take home replicas. We also have live animals that can also be touched and held. We have a 4500 sq ft museum and 2 acre outdoor adventure park. Our creation science museum is dedicated to comparing and contrasting scientific models like intelligent design and evolution on the origin of the universe, and catastrophism and uniformitarianism modesl on the geologic record. Multiple views on the topics are provided. 3,821 people attended our science center and museum in 2019.
We provide summer hands-on science camps for children in K-8th grade. These include dinosaur adventure camp, wacky science camp, space exploration camp, creature feature camp, crime scene investigator camp, and STEAM (exciting electricity) camp. 157 children were enrolled in our camps in 2019.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Jodie L Brewer | Executive Director | 40 | $25,625 |
| Alexandria Schall | Board member | 20 | $13,907 |
| Carolann Velotta | Secretary | 20 | $12,048 |
| Jacki Rogers | Secretary | 20 | $11,737 |
| Gary Gage | Board member | 10 | $0 |
| Theresa Chmielewski | Board member | 0.5 | $0 |
| Todd Styer | Board member | 0.5 | $0 |
| Lynn Turnbow | Board member | 0.5 | $0 |
| Mark Turnbow | Board member | 0.5 | $0 |
| Al Gotch | Board member | 0.5 | $0 |
| Greg Spickard | Board member | 0.5 | $0 |
| Kurt Siegfried | Board member | 0.5 | $0 |
| Bob Combs | Board member | 0.5 | $0 |
| Nick Reinfeld | Board member | 5 | $0 |
| Dennis Osborn | Vice President | 1 | $0 |
| William M Sanderson Ii | President | 10 | $0 |
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